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- noun Alternative spelling of
fire hose . - verb To wash something down with a firehose; to douse with a large amount of
water (or chemical agent) sprayed from a hose, to extinguish afire .
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Examples
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Google says will satisfy many developers, access to the full Google Buzz stream of all public activities on Buzz -- commonly dubbed the "firehose" -- can be gained by developers.
Neowin.net 2010
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Google says will satisfy many developers, access to the full Google Buzz stream of all public activities on Buzz -- commonly dubbed the "firehose" -- can be gained by developers.
Neowin.net 2010
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When the firehose is turned off, it’s a good time to clean up and sandbag your file space against the next onslaught.
What You Should Do When Your Internet’s Out | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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A snapshot, which is also known as a firehose cursor, fetches all of the data immediately, so it can take longer to load large result sets.
Site Home Bill Ramos 2011
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Today, Google has announced the launch of the Google Buzz firehose, which will give developers access to all public activity published on Buzz via a single feed with real-time PubSubHubBub syndication. said the firehose was their most-requested features from developers.
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But access to the full breadth of Twitter content as it's published -- dubbed the firehose -- was quite the lucrative catch for Twitter: valued in the millions for access to Twitter content as it is published, and other partners have struck smaller deals.
CNET News.com 2010
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The firehose is the full stream of our data that has been blocked from its contributors since May, 2008.
TechCrunch 2009
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The firehose is a stream HTTP solution; a client connects to it and the stream begins, ceasing only when the client disconnects.
TechCrunch 2009
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'firehose' - a syndicated feed - for which they paid millions of dollars.
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"firehose" - an index of all 65 million tweets that are posted to the service daily - and will be offering Jive software through the
GigaOM Network 2010
alexz commented on the word firehose
In Twitter terms, this refers to the data feed of Every Tweet Sent.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/16/twitter-buys-gnip-firehose-analytics-apple-topsy
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Gnip uses its access to the feed of every tweet sent – known as the "firehose", for the sheer quantity of data pumped out through it – to offer deep analysis of social media to companies in areas including marketing, finance and public relations."
April 17, 2014